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Louisa county, Virginia
Was the he began to focus on establishing civil rights for black citizens.
He attended Oberlin college.john got his masters degree in theology. Langston was determined so he studied privately in Elyria, Ohio. Later on that year John Langston passed his bar exam.
John mercer Langston died in 1891

In 1888 he became African American can to win a congressional election in the states Virginia .
In 1854 John became the first African American lawyer in the state of Ohio.
In 1867 he served as a city councilman.

He ran as a republican candidate for a seat in the u.s. House of Representatives. Langston also been in the congress seat from 1890 to1891.

He established q law of practice in brow helm,Ohio. He organized an antislavery societies at both the state and local level . He also helped run way slaves to escape along the Ohio section of the under ground rail road. Also Langston s public social reform were broad and included appeals for women's rights and temperance.

John served on the board of education his new law practice established and respected, Langston handled legal matters for the town. John vigilantly supported the republican candidates for local and national office, he was credited by helping steer the Ohio Republican Party towards radicalism and a strong antislavery position.

He saw that the rights of newly freed slaves were protected as educational inspector for the freedman bureau. He also traveled throughout the south advocating educational opportunity and political equality and economic justice.
He was selected by the black national convention to lead the national Equal rights league pitcher 1864. He also carried out extensive suffrage campaigns in Ohio, Kansas, and also Missouri. Langston's vision was realized in 1867, with the congressional consent of the suffrage of black males .

The impact John mercer Langston left in this world for us was the right for women to vote and for the congressional People to accept and to see what we as men an women was going through.

The life lesson John mercer left for me was to never let your dreams go away from you all because other people say that you aren't good enough or you are not fit for that specific the that you want to do in life.